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Samoan fans have been handed down in many different designs as widely used objects of daily use. While many fans are equipped with a wooden handle, the handle here consists of the coconut leaf strips, which also form the fan leaf. The handle is also wrapped with hair to increase its strength. Text: Ulrich Menter

Data Provider
Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Fächer
Dimensions
Width: 27 cm
Height: 41.5 cm
Material/Technique
Coconut leaf fibre, Hair
braided
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
022588

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Zembsch; 0515a
  • Production
    when
    before 1884
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Samoa
    who
    Zembsch, Otto - Collectors
Provenance
The object is part of a collection of objects that Otto Zembsch (1841-1911) donated to the museum in 1902. Zembsch, who represented the German Empire from 1884 to 1885 as Consul General in Korea and from 1886 to 1901 as Ambassador to Peru, had been acting Consul of the German Empire in Sāmoa since 1879. It is probable that the objects from Sāmoa were acquired in the period before 1884. Text: Ulrich Menter

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